Ariane 5 lifts ESA x-ray telescope in first commercial launch
Europe's big new Ariane 5 rocket hoisted the European Space Agency's X-ray Multimirror Mission (XMM) x-ray astronomy satellite to orbit Friday, marking its first commercial launch. The Ariane 5 shot off the launch pad at the Guiana Space Center near Kourou right on time at 9:32 a.m. EST and deployed...
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